Hi :) Yeh, i'm now on Ubuntu 14.04 with LO 4.2.6 and do have the problem but earlier on 3.5.7 i wasn't getting it.
Hmm, is this something to do with styles? Is it that the style is staying the same and so the boldness is staying on? Regards from Tom :) On 4 November 2014 16:12, Graham Luffrum <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > yes, I switch off bold. What is not clear to me at all in Writer (and in > Word) is to what character the codes switching on and off bold etc. are > attached. I write every now and then texts with mathematics in them and > variable names are always in italics. Sometimes I want to change a name, > say from x (italic) to ax (italic). The way I did it in WordPerfect was to > put the cursor before the x and type an a - very easy. In Writer you > cannot do that, as you get a normal a and not an italicised one. I would > then guess that the on and off codes are stuck to the next character, which > might explain the behaviour mentioned by the OP. I doubt somehow that this > is a bug. > > Graham > > On 4 November 2014 09:36, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi :) > > Ahh, you reminded me! Yes i used to like that feature of Wordperfect a > > LOT too. With Writer and Word i've always tended to switch on the > > backwards P to show all non-printing characters. It doesn't go quite as > > far as Wp did but it's still a huge help. > > > > Errr, most people seem to hate seeing those characters and seem to think > > Writer is broken when they see them on my screen or see it as proof that > > Writer is unusable. So i have to switch them off a lot of the time, when > > working with others :( > > > > You seem to be the first person saying that you have seen the odd > > behaviour in other versions of LibreOffice. Are you sure you switched > Bold > > off? > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > On 4 November 2014 07:49, Graham Luffrum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I seem to recall that this has always been the case, at least under > Linux > >> Mint with various versions of LibreOffice. Interestingly, if on the > >> second > >> line one puts some text (not in bold as one would expect) and then do > >> newline and move the cursor back up to before the text on line two it > >> shows > >> bold as being off. (I have to say that one thing which I miss in Writer > >> and also in Word, when I used it, is the approach that WordPerfect used > >> (or > >> maybe still does if it still exists) whereby one could see the codes > that > >> switched bold, and underlining etc. on and off. One could then see > >> exactly > >> where the bolding started and stopped.) > >> > >> Graham > >> > >> On 4 November 2014 01:17, Tim Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have verified this in 4.4.0.0 alpha and 4.3.2.2 under Fedora 21 > >> > > >> > I can also see that the problem is NOT apparent under XP on 4.2.0.4. > >> > > >> > What OS are you using? > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > > >> > > >> > On 04/11/14 10:41, jerryvb wrote: > >> > > >> >> I have found a strange action by Writer. I think it might be a bug, > but > >> >> I'm > >> >> not sure. At the moment I'm using LibreOffice Writer 4.2.6.3. But, I > >> have > >> >> verified this also in 4.3.1.1, 4.3.1.2, 4.3.2.2, and 4.3.3.2. > >> >> > >> >> In a Writer text document, on a blank line, do this: > >> >> > >> >> 1. Turn on Bold either by Ctr+B or by toolbar button. > >> >> 2. Type some text in bold font. > >> >> 3. Before pressing Enter, Type Ctl+B to turn bold off. > >> >> 4. Press Enter two times. > >> >> 5. Press the Up arrow one time. > >> >> 6. Look at the Bold toolbar button, Bold will be back on. > >> >> > >> >> I just tested LibreOffice 3.5.4.2, and OpenOffice 4.3.1, both of > those > >> do > >> >> not act this way. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/ > >> >> LibreOffice-Writer-Bold-activates-by-itself-tp4127860.html > >> >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > >> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > >> > unsubscribe/ > >> > Posting guidelines + more: > >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >> > deleted > >> > > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > >> Problems? > >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >> Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >> deleted > >> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
